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LUMEN Inspect
Find out what is actually wrong.
One flight covers the whole site. You get the photographs, a list of what needs attention, and what we would do about it.
Designed forAny commercial site
Solar performance services — Zimbabwe
Dust is costing
you power.
We inspect, clean and maintain commercial and industrial solar across Zimbabwe, using drones and robots — so most of the work happens without anyone up on the roof.
The loss you already pay for
Six months of dust,
and no rain to shift it.
6months No rain to help May to October. Road dust, veld fires and harvest drift build on glass with nothing to wash them off.
8–25% Lost to dust What panels lose by late September if nobody cleans them. Worst on the mine belt and beside gravel roads.
Dirty panels make less power. On a small roof that is easy enough to deal with. On a large site it turns into a job nobody wants to schedule: hundreds of rows, awkward access, and weeks between the first panel cleaned and the last.
So most sites get cleaned late, or not at all, and nobody knows what it is costing.
Services
Inspect it. Clean it.
Keep it clean.
Three services, in that order. Each one uses what the one before it found.
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LUMEN Clean
We clean the panels. You do not buy a machine.
No equipment to buy, nobody to train. You agree the job, we do it, and you get a record of what was cleaned.
Designed for100 kW and above
03
LUMEN Care
We come back, so it stays clean.
How often depends on how fast your site gets dirty, which the first inspection tells us. Every visit is written down.
Designed for500 kW to multi-MW
The machine
This is what
does the work.
It carries a nozzle, not a tank. The pump and the water stay on the ground, the drone takes the nozzle up, and nobody has to walk the rows to reach the far end of the site.
- 3,200PSI
- at the nozzle
- 1,000m²
- an hour, roughly
- 100m
- from the pump
What dust costs — Zimbabwe seasons
What is dust
costing you?
Put your own numbers in and see what the dry season is worth on your site.
Dust on glass, month by month
How you clean now
On a LUMEN schedule
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Power you keep
- Loss avoided
- —%
- Energy recovered
- —MWh/yr
- Value recovered
- —/yr
An estimate, not a promise. It uses a seasonal dust profile for the Zimbabwean highveld, caps the loss at 25%, assumes the rains wash the panels through the wet season, and treats every clean as a full reset. An inspection replaces these assumptions with what your site is actually doing.
Want the real number for your site?
Request a LUMEN Inspect assessmentWhy LUMEN
A better way to
maintain solar
Done from the air
A drone crosses the whole site in one flight instead of working along it row by row.
Judged on output
What matters is the power coming out, not how the glass looks from the gate.
Built for big sites
Size and access are what make cleaning expensive, so the method has to work at both ends.
Kept on a schedule
One clean helps for a month. Coming back is what keeps the number up.
Who we serve
Built for
solar operators
Mining
Haul roads, crushers and stockpiles put dust in the air all dry season.
Manufacturing
The panels run the plant, so dust on them shows up as bought power or diesel.
Agriculture
Large arrays beside gravel roads and worked land, exposed to harvest drift.
Commercial
Warehouses, factories, hotels and offices — roof-mounted, and access is the first problem.
Solar farms
Ground-mount sites where cleaning is measured in hectares rather than panels.
Developers & owners
People answerable for sites they do not visit, who need the condition written down.
Reporting
The job doesn't end
when the drone lands
After every visit you get a record: what we covered, what we did, and what the site looked like when we left. Over time that becomes its history.
- Inspection imagery
- Thermal imagery where applicable
- Areas inspected
- Cleaning activity
- Observations
- Recommendations
- Maintenance history
Prefer to own the machines? LUMEN sources, deploys and supports solar-cleaning equipment for operators who run their own. Equipment solutions
Next step
Find out what your
array is losing
Tell us the size of the site, where it is, and how it gets cleaned today. We come back with what the dust is costing you, in US dollars, and what we would do about it.